{"id":139515,"date":"2023-07-04T08:17:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-04T15:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/acousticguitar.com\/?p=139515"},"modified":"2023-07-04T10:27:58","modified_gmt":"2023-07-04T17:27:58","slug":"jaimee-harris-boomerang-town-finds-the-dark-and-light-in-emotional-journey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acousticguitar.com\/jaimee-harris-boomerang-town-finds-the-dark-and-light-in-emotional-journey\/","title":{"rendered":"Jaimee Harris\u2019 \u2018Boomerang Town\u2019 Finds the Dark and Light in Emotional Journey"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>What a revelation this <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3CX3VGC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">second album from Texas-born, Nashville-based singer-songwriter Jaimee Harris<\/a> is! It\u2019s country-leaning folk Americana, every song propelled by acoustic guitar and other, mostly spare instrumentation, with Harris\u2019 remarkable voice leading us through ten original songs (four of them co-writes) that pack a tremendous emotional punch. Whether they\u2019re describing personal memories or painting portraits of friends and lovers or conjuring myriad emotional states\u2014wistful, sad, confused, contented, uncertain, hopeful\u2014these songs all have the deep ring of truth that springs from Harris\u2019 own life experiences growing up in a small, Waco-area town she was desperate to escape: \u201ca \u2018boomerang town,\u2019\u201d she once explained, \u201cbecause it feels like a lot of folks that try to leave end up back there.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/acousticguitar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Jaimee-Harris-Boomerang-Town-Folk-N-Roll-Records-Thirty-Tigers.jpg?ssl=1\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"750\" height=\"750\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/acousticguitar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Jaimee-Harris-Boomerang-Town-Folk-N-Roll-Records-Thirty-Tigers.jpg?resize=750%2C750&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Jaimee Harris, Boomerang Town, (Folk N\u2019 Roll Records\/Thirty Tigers)\" class=\"wp-image-139518\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/acousticguitar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Jaimee-Harris-Boomerang-Town-Folk-N-Roll-Records-Thirty-Tigers.jpg?w=750&amp;ssl=1 750w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/acousticguitar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Jaimee-Harris-Boomerang-Town-Folk-N-Roll-Records-Thirty-Tigers.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/acousticguitar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Jaimee-Harris-Boomerang-Town-Folk-N-Roll-Records-Thirty-Tigers.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/acousticguitar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Jaimee-Harris-Boomerang-Town-Folk-N-Roll-Records-Thirty-Tigers.jpg?resize=600%2C600&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/acousticguitar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Jaimee-Harris-Boomerang-Town-Folk-N-Roll-Records-Thirty-Tigers.jpg?resize=125%2C125&amp;ssl=1 125w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/acousticguitar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Jaimee-Harris-Boomerang-Town-Folk-N-Roll-Records-Thirty-Tigers.jpg?resize=50%2C50&amp;ssl=1 50w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Jaimee Harris, <\/em>Boomerang Town<em>, (Folk N\u2019 Roll Records\/Thirty Tigers)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The poetic, nearly seven-minute title track has some of the vibe of Bruce Springsteen\u2019s \u201cThe River,\u201d telling a story about two young people trapped and paralyzed by fate and circumstance. Harris herself managed to leave at 19, when she split for Austin, but her past struggles\u2014including addiction, family issues, and personal tragedies\u2014have left their mark on her, and she channels all that and more into her songs, whether autobiographical or told from the perspective of others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1290\" height=\"726\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/s2RJ5Tl-Fnk?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Harris\u2019 voice, which I would favorably compare to two of her admitted influences\u2014Emmylou Harris and Patty Griffin\u2014has tremendous range, moving easily from sturdy storyteller to strikingly open and vulnerable self-revelator. In Harris\u2019 current life, her partner is the noted folk singer Mary Gauthier (they co-wrote two of the most powerful songs here, both about deep loss\u2014\u201cHow Could You Be Gone\u201d and \u201cFall (Devlin\u2019s Song)\u201d). But the musical brilliance of the album stems from Harris\u2019 partnership with producer and multi-instrumentalist Mark Hallman, whose tasteful arrangements support the songs so well: cello and violin here, a touch of accordion there, a taste of harmonica, steel guitar, a little organ; nothing in excess. And <em>always<\/em> acoustic guitar, strummed and\/or fingerpicked. Harris says, \u201cI play a 2013 Gibson J-45. I got it in 2014, the same year I got sober. So I feel like we\u2019re growing together. Her name is Gillie.\u201d As for Hallman, he played a 1969 Gurian and a 1951 Gibson J-45.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is definitely one of the best singer-songwriter albums I\u2019ve heard in a while and I highly recommend you check it out!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every song on this country-leaning folk Americana album is propelled by acoustic guitar and other, mostly spare instrumentation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":139517,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"Every song on this country-leaning folk Americana album is propelled by acoustic guitar and other, mostly spare instrumentation.","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[885],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[1539],"blocksy_meta":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/acousticguitar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Jaimee-Harris-2022-BrandonAguilar-LEAD-PRESS-PHOTO.jpg?fit=750%2C500&ssl=1","authors":[{"term_id":1539,"user_id":7,"is_guest":0,"slug":"blairstringletter-com","display_name":"Blair Jackson","avatar_url":{"url":"https:\/\/acousticguitar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/blair-jackson-headshot.png","url2x":"https:\/\/acousticguitar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/blair-jackson-headshot.png"},"user_url":"","last_name":"Jackson","first_name":"Blair","description":"Blair Jackson is the author of the definitive biography <i>Garcia: An American Life<\/i> and was senior editor at <i>Acoustic Guitar<\/i> before retiring in 2023."}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acousticguitar.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139515"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acousticguitar.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acousticguitar.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acousticguitar.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acousticguitar.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139515"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/acousticguitar.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":141132,"href":"https:\/\/acousticguitar.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139515\/revisions\/141132"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acousticguitar.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acousticguitar.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acousticguitar.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acousticguitar.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139515"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acousticguitar.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=139515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}